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Antibes-Juan-les-Pins (Municipality, Alpes-Maritimes, France)

Flag of Antibes - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 23 September 2026

Presentation of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins
- Coat of arms of Antibes
Municipal flag of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins
- Former flag of Antibes
- Variant flag of Antibes
Yacht clubs
- Club Nautique d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins
- Yacht Club d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

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Presentation of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

Antibes-Juan-les-Pins (77,637 inhabitants in 2023 on 2,648 ha) is a municipality located on the Mediterranean sea.

Antibes was founded as Antipolis by the Greeks colonists from Massalia (now Marseilles) and became later a fortified border city. It was bought for France to the Grimaldi family (still reigning over Monaco) by Henri IV.
Antibes has attracted several artists such as the painters Pablo Picasso, who stayed in the Grimaldi fortress (now Picasso Museum) in 1946-1949, and Nicolas de Staël, who committed suicide from the fortifications in 1955, the poet and novelist Jacques Audiberti, the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzaki...

Juan-les-Pins was created as a sea resort by the American billionaire Florence Jay Gould, who also founded there the oldest jazz festival in Europe (still active every year in July).

Ivan Sache, 10 June 2000

Coat of arms of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

The coat of arms is blazoned:
Azure, a cross Argent cantoned with four fleurs-de-lis Or, debruised by a label of three points Gules, a chief azure semé-de-lis Or.

In the 11th century, Antibes saw ships set sail from its port for the Holy Land, bearing the blue flag with a white cross that gave rise to the town's coat of arms. The red label is an element derived directly from the coat of arms of Provence. In the 15th century, Antibes was incorporated into the Kingdom of France, which explains the presence of the four golden fleurs-de-lis.
The chief is derived from the coat of arms of the Kingdom of France and serves as a reminder that Antibes was one of the "good towns (bonnes villes) of the Kingdom." The motto is "fidei servandæ exemplum 1815" (memorable example of fidelity, 1815), bestowed by King Louis XVIII upon the town that refused to welcome Napoleon upon his return from the island of Elba.

Olivier Touzeau, 23 September 2026

Municipal flag of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

The flag of Antibes is vertically divided white and blue, with the arms in the center, but the official flag have existed in at least two different versions.

Recent versions are very light blue and include the motto of the coat of arms: photo (2020), photo (2025).

Olivier Touzeau, 23 September 2026

Former flag of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

Variant f lag of Antibes - Image byOlivier Touzeau, 23 September 2026

A former version of the official municipal flag was bicolore but with a medium blue field, and different colours for the coat of arms: chief gules and not azure, and label Or.
See: photo, found on archives.ville-antibes.fr.

Olivier Touzeau, 23 September 2026

Variant former flag of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

Variant f lag of Antibes - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 26 August 2000

In Seborga, I saw in Palazzo del Govierno a Breton Gwenn-Ha-Du and a flag they told me to be the flag of Antibes, given to Seborga by the Mayor of Antibes.
The flag is vertically divided white-blueg with the arms of the city of Antibes-Juan les-Pins (which can be seen on the municipal vehicles).

Olivier Touzeau, 26 August 2000

Yacht clubs

Club Nautique d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

by Ivan Sache

Club Nautique d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins was founded on 1 July 1927.

The CNA quays and clubhouse are located in the Port Vauban, built in 1970 and named after Marshal Vauban. Vauban (1633-1707) was appointed General Commissioner for the Fortifications by Louis XIV in 1678. He built several fortifications on the French land borders and on the coasts, and modernized several ancient fortification systems. In Antibes, then a border city of strategic importance, Vauban increased the Fort-Carré (Square Fort) and added ramparts to protect the old city from attack via the sea. The Fort-Carré has a four-pointed star shape.

The burgee of CNA is a triangular blue flag with a white cross fimbriated red. A white star fimbriated red is placed in the canton.

The by-laws of CNA, adopted on 15 March 2001, include an article related to the burgee:

Article 5.15.

All CNA members' boats moored at the club quays must show the emblem of the CNA (burgee or sticker) in a visible manner.

Source: CNA website

Ivan Sache, 17 March 2003

Yacht Club d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

by Ivan Sache

The burgee of YCA is white with a blue (horizontal arm) and red (vertical arm) cross charged in the middle with the municipal coat of arms enclosed in a white oval; the coat of arms is flanked by YC and ANTIBES, written in white on thge horizontal arm of the cross.

Source: Yacht Club de France website (affiliated clubs)

Ivan Sache, 29 December 2004